Peter Ellis

Interests

I am interested in places I live and have lived, and things I know about, including:

Amateur Radio; violin; string instruments; Royal Australian Navy; reptiles; satellites; Christianity; broadcasting; radio; Canberra; Jervis Bay;

In my spare time, I regularly write for several magazines and I am a broadcaster on community radio stations and the Australian Amateur Radio national news service.

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Academic

Master of Management Studies (MMgtStudies) in Project Management - University of New South Wales through the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, the Capital city of Australia Australian Capital Territory

• Subjects that I particularly enjoyed included: Human Resource Management, System Dynamic Modelling, Microeconomics for Managers, Facility and Property Management, Communicatuions and Information Systems, Fundamentals of Surveillance Technologies, Legal Process and Procedure, Satellite Communications, Strategic Management, Project Management Body of Knowledge

Diploma of Applied Science (DipApSci) - Royal Australian Navy College, Jervis Bay, New South Wales

And, I have the itch to do a PhD on a field of economic / social / government administration (although I've been advised to write a book on a part of the subject first, in order to cure the itch.)

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I am proud of my substantive contributions to Wikipedia, many listed below, and I appreciate other people's work.

I am referring to Wikipedia from several web sites that I maintain, because I realise the usefulness of the articles and the intellectual rigor achieved by collective work (whatever the doubters and gain-sayers dredge up from time to time.)

I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Pages I have written (established) include...

Lake_George,_New_South_Wales; Brake (box and pan); Jervis Bay Territory; Bruce Beresford; John Bell (actor); Press corps; Walkley Award that became Walkley Awards; Laurie Oakes; Dean Drayton; Sargent and Greenleaf; Canberra Region (now Canberra wine region); Ronald Wilson; Philip Adams; Australian Living Treasures; Radio Print Handicapped Network; Paul Davies; Chris Ritchie; Australian Defence Force Academy; John Templeton; Templeton Prize; Wardroom; Commanding officer; Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress; Secondary Ionisation (SIMS); International Amateur Radio Union; Nowra; Logie Award; List of Logie Award winners 2004; Guarneri family of violin makers; Scott Cao - modern violin maker; Belconnen (district); North Canberra (district); Child stealing; Montana Barbaro; Fairey Gannet; Robyn Williams; Malcolm Mackerras; Elizabeth Blackburn; Bogong Moth; Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions; US/Australia Parliamentary Friendship Group; Remembrance Driveway (Australia); Govie (Canberra); User:Peter_Ellis/Copyrights; Armstrong-Siddeley Double Mamba turboprop aircraft engine (for Fairey Gannet); Armstrong-Siddeley Mamba; Friends of Australia Congressional Caucus; George Newnes - publisher; Stan Grant; Stan Grant (junior); John Rudder; John Williams (water scientist); Harry Hopman; List of highest towns by country; Cabramurra; Alicia Molik; William Grant Broughton; June Bronhill; Fiona Wood; Bertil Schmüll;

Written for

Uniting Church in Australia; Act of God; List of Christian scientists; Sydney Bertram Carter; Compton Gamma Ray Observatory; Royal Australian Navy; Amateur radio; Michael Jeffery; Royal Military College, Duntroon; Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress; ; Andrew Tridgell; International Telecommunication Union; HMAS Albatross; Nigel Kennedy - violinist; Richard Butler (diplomat); Advance Australia Fair; List of Canberra suburbs; The Iguanas; Cyclone Tracy; Hydrogen-5 and Hydrogen; Timeline of underwater technology; Crumhorn; Charmaine Reid; Apollo moon landing hoax accusations; Philip K. Chapman (the first Australian astronaut); Paul D. Scully-Power (oceanographer and NASA Mission Specialist); Andy Thomas (astronaut); Baking; Shiraz grape; Grange wine; Render (cement surface, and bagging); William-Adolphe_Bouguereau; Barge (as in 'barge pole'); Crossbar switch; Project Mogul; Cyclone Tracy; Tasman Bridge; Sydney_to_Hobart Yacht Race; Alain Caron (bass player); Uzeb; Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance; University of Pavia; Burley; Burleigh; Gold Coast, Queensland; Earl of Anglesey; Walter Womersley proving persistence is necessary, and rewarding; Ship of Fools (website); Simon Jenkins; Event-related potential; Ringer; Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex ; Patrick Steptoe ; Seth Carlo Chandler; Chandler wobble ; Hopman Cup; International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service ; Slash_(punctuation)#Computing; Ricky Ponting; Wiradjuri; "Money for old rope."; Marián Calfa; Kerala state, India; List of state leaders in 1421; 1421 theory; Wikipedia:Book sources; Azem Hajdari; Christopher Columbus; Women's Tennis Association; Mark Latham; John Howard; List of state leaders in 1574; Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers; Easter; Maritza Sayalero; Royal Mail Ship; Egon Eiermann;

"10 random pages" that I'm working with

• Current (19 January 2005): Maritza Sayalero - but no picture?!?; Operation Good Guys - fantastic; Royal Mail Ship - one of the original TLAs; God Fodder - enough to blow you to atoms; LÉ Aoife (P22) - there's no joke!; Egon Eiermann - There must be more to draw on; Flower/Halloween - music; Tilting train - mechanical; Cadet Records - but which recording artists?!?; Flail - surprisingly flull (sic) description;

• Seventh (5 January 2005): Exmoor Horn - a sheepish entry; Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers - well, look at that!; Cretaceous - periodically interesting; Azem Hajdari - worth working on; Northern Buddhism - Confucius say...; List of state leaders in 1574 - Oh, please!?!; Markyate - well laid out town; Bowsprit - sailors follow anything...; Kelemvor - something I know nothing about, and have no wish to learn; Alonzo J. Edgerton - a life well lived, it seems;

• Sixth (31 December 2004): List of ZIP Codes in Delaware - rivetting!; Firebird (Russian folklore) - interesting; Pop rap - uninteresting; Emo - as opposed to Álternative; Mason Township, Michigan - There are some original folk in Michigan; A few acres of snow - au contrare... ; Hexachrome - needs colour; Pharamond - there´s more to this...; Amphibian - diambiguation for its own sake, I think; Marián Calfa - Czech it out;

• Fifth (28 December 2004): Malcolm Saville - thin bio page; Walter Womersley - thin bio page (now much less so!); 1626 in science - thin, and what does a person do with it?; Perrières - someone obvious wants a list...; Tengiz Field - a well-oiled page; Henry II of Jerusalem - well done; Lieutenant Governor of Texas - okay; Patrick_Steptoe/Temp - copyright-proofed new page; Stinson, Ontario - step up to this, Canuks!; Earl of Anglesey - disambig for some interesting people;

• Fourth (which I was surprised to find ´´could´´ be helped) : Statistical parameter - when is a stub not a stub?; Bubonic plague - morbidly well rounded (so, untouched); Alain Caron - disambig mostly useful for Alain Caron (bass player) that I did flesh out; Rhein-Kreis Neuss - surprisingly full; Loukoumas - I want to get some Greek pronunciation (in English) here; Russulales - begs work from a botanist (which I am not); Coat of Arms of Singapore - well done; University of Pavia - links and lists, but no content (until I did some translating); Burley - disambig Burleigh; Mike Duke - very stubby until I looked around;

• Third (most of which I can't do much about): Project Mogul - thin on details, still; A. K. Antony - I'll ask an Indian acquaintance; A Change of Seasons - by Dream Theatre; Israeli MIAs - I can never find a barge pole when I need one!; Lona - Hmmmm...; David Scott (painter) - needs some images, etc; Crossbar switch - needs an image (which I found); Millsaps College - needs an alumni; Geniculate nucleus - needs a medical doctor for the medial geniculate nucleus; Ostuni - needs and Italian or a recent tourist

• Second (some of which I'm just NOT touching!): Baking - thinly written but could be good; Szczecin-Podborz - minimal; Ministry of the Environment (Japan) - very thin; Amir Vahedi - beginnings of a good article; All India Tribes and Minorities Front - needs work; Kitakawabe, Saitama - minimal; War of the Dwarves and Orcs - Um.....; Shiraz grape - could be fuller-bodied; Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics - needs a Subject Matter Expert (SME); Miroslav Klose - needs a Subject Matter Expert (SME) who cares!

• First (most of which I found stimulating to assist along): Charmaine Reid - a stub; The Zodiac - music group; John Julius Angerstein; Archie Bunker's Place - TV sitcom; Email client - form of software; Crumhorn - musical instrument of the Renaissance period; Timeline of underwater technology; Hydrogen-5 - isotope of Hydrogen; Mungo Park - 18th century explorer of Africa; The Iguanas - music group - a stub